Example sentences of "[adj] for [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might even be possible for Members of Parliament to walk down the street and assess the approximate value of property in one street compared with property in another . |
| 2 | Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed . |
| 3 | The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching . |
| 4 | Extrinsic signals representing the inner symbols are what make it possible for groups of humans to share a meaningful world . |
| 5 | If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’ |
| 6 | It was normal for pairs of waggon doors to face each other on opposite side walls of the barn ( Plate 2 ) , but in some barns the threshing floor could be approached only from one side , there being a blank wall opposite . |
| 7 | True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness . |
| 8 | This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation . |
| 9 | It should be emphasised that although these statistics are interesting for purposes of comparison , they should be treated with caution because of the differences in the methods of compilation . |
| 10 | They are thus particularly appropriate for studies of convection and stratified flow . |
| 11 | The International Registration Service is not appropriate for items of value . |
| 12 | Microsoft is now trying to market Windows as a stepping stone to OS/2 , by making it easy for users of Windows and writers of programs for Windows to migrate to OS/2 eventually . |
| 13 | Councils unprepared for effects of BSE |
| 14 | While this would be fine for writers of science fiction , it would mean that no one 's life would ever be safe : someone might go into the past and kill your father or mother before you were conceived ! |
| 15 | This hotel has some large rooms which are ideal for groups of friends or families . |
| 16 | It is almost conventional for discussions of localities to miss out experience of the Second World War , although First World War experiences are more commonly considered . |
| 17 | In discussion sessions it was not unusual for groups of participants to have strong and very different views about particular tasks ! |
| 18 | To protect the carrier against conflicting claims by more than one holder it became customary for bills of lading and letters of credit to require that delivery of the goods , or payment of the documentary draft or letter of credit by a bank be made against presentation of the ‘ full set . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps this holds good for makers of motor-cars . |
| 20 | These regulations are effective for programmes of study starting in and after September 1990 . |
| 21 | Examples on video of people at work can be very useful for students of English for a specific purpose . |
| 22 | Given the problems we noted in measuring depreciation , the ‘ gross ’ concept is perhaps the most useful for purposes of comparison , whether through time or across countries . |
| 23 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
| 24 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 25 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 26 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 27 | This word-superiority effect is clearly important for models of word recognition : any model would have to offer an account of why , even though a word target has four times as many letters as a single letter target , the word is easier to perceive . |
| 28 | This is important for questions of taxonomy , because we can observe the relative frequency of H. erectus and Neanderthal characters in the sample , and for phylogeny , because questions of character polarity may be resolved ( for some parts of the skeleton there were no Middle Pleistocene data before the discovery of the bones at Atapuerca ) . |
| 29 | This is much less likely to be a problem in numerical work , which is therefore particularly important for studies of regimes inaccessible in the laboratory ( e.g. convection in conditions where non-Boussinesq effects — see the Appendix to Chapter 14 — are significant , perhaps in connection with an application such as solar granulation , Section 26.6 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's very important for preparers of accounts to have a voice , and only the top 100 companies really have the resources to cope with the amount of time and effort that takes . |